A believer in the kindness of all humans

I know a lot of Tottenham Hotspur supporters will look at our current form and think we are blessed with an amazing team. And guess what. You’d be 100% correct!

But it wasn’t always like that.

Infact one such season (where I actually went to a few home games) was the 1997/1998 season.

I still remember I had tickets for the last home game of the season, against Southampton. And yet going into the second to last game, away to Wimbledon, if we didn’t get 3 points we were in big big trouble.

Luckily we won 6-2 and Jurgen Klinsmann scored 4. So I went to the last home game much relieved and relaxed.

For the record he is the greatest striker I’ve seen play for Spurs. Jurgen’s movement and speed of mind was amazing.

So glad we have clearly moved onwards and upwards as a club. But still nice to look back sometimes on where we used to be.

What a great article. And great to see a CEO wanting the technology he is involved in to actually help graduates.

Love this quote.

“My point is that as social media becomes incorporated more fully into business (and it will!) being savvy about Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn will become a critical skill set. In today’s business landscape, jobs are becoming less specialized and more general; the more you know, the more hireable you become.”

Suggests to me that new graduates when they apply for jobs, will more and more be judged on their own credentials. And they’ll have to show a genuine interest (and better still would be passion) in the job they are applying for.

Shame about the title of the article, because it actually has a very revealing quote from Google.

Q. Other insights from the data you’ve gathered about Google employees?

A. One of the things we’ve seen from all our data crunching is that G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless — no correlation at all except for brand-new college grads, where there’s a slight correlation. Google famously used to ask everyone for a transcript and G.P.A.’s and test scores, but we don’t anymore, unless you’re just a few years out of school. We found that they don’t predict anything.

“According to the latest report, jobless EU migrants form 1% of the total EU population. In the UK the figure was 1.2% in 2011 and 2012.”

This is a fantastic article. It should be mandatory reading for all IT Graduates globally. Infact even for High School (in the UK Secondary School) leavers.

I’d also like to add don’t let the fear of failure in startups deter you from considering them. The younger you are, the less likely you are to have family (ie kids) and financial (ie a mortgage & school fees) commitments which WILL more likely influence your decision making against startups.

You only live once so make it count and list all the options on the table, go through the pros and cons. And make a call, ideally talk it through with a friend or co-graduate.